sharing folders - QEMU-KVM & Windows guest

[snowcrash101]

Hello

I've used virtualbox and sharing folders with a Windows guest is straightforward. Though with QEMU-KVM it doesn't seem to be. I keep reading about samba-share, but it's not clear how to do this. Is there a step-by-step guide that someone could point me to?

thanks

[odtech]

Hello

I've used virtualbox and sharing folders with a Windows guest is straightforward. Though with QEMU-KVM it doesn't seem to be. I keep reading about samba-share, but it's not clear how to do this. Is there a step-by-step guide that someone could point me to?

thanks

Hi.

You can read the man pages either in linux or on the web.

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man samba

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/ma ... onf.5.html

For a quick start though you can just do the following.

To install samba

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sudo apt-get install samba

Decide which user you will use to authenticate with when accessing the shares from the windows guest. I just use my mint username and same password.

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sudo smbpasswd -a <username>

Configure a share.

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sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Add the share definition to the bottom of the file. If the folder you are sharing is not in your home directly just make sure the user you specified for authentication has rights to the folder.

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[<put share name here>]
path = <path to share>
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = no
valid users = <username>

Save and exit
Now restart samba
sudo service smbd restart